“I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.”– T. S. Eliot Related Quotes “If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.”– Alexander Smith “Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.”– Floyd Patterson “Death and life have their determined appointments riches and honors depend upon heaven.”– Confucius